11. XI. 1919

TO M. N. POKROVSKY

Comrade Pokrovsky! In my view, the following emerges from the enclosed 76: everything to the People's Commissariat of Education. Return it with your opinion.

Your Lenin

REPLY FROM M. N. POKROVSKY

If there are Party comrades interested in library work and understanding it, they should be brought into our library department*, which is suffering greatly precisely from the lack of its own people — but one should not establish "Party" libraries in parallel with "Soviet" libraries.

TO M. N. POKROVSKY

I agree. Give a formal conclusion from the People's Commissar (or Deputy People's Commissar) on this question to the Central Committee (a copy for me).

First published in 1933

in Leninskii sbornik XXIV

Printed from the manuscript